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December 8th 2008:
“The Web of Life” and "Cycles
& Circles" in "MolenMotion"
on Action Radio
Since November 13th our good friend Ferry Molenaar
has his own radio show, MolenMotion,
on the internet radiostation Action Radio. Right
off, in his very first show, he played "The
Web of Life" (halfway through the first
hour) and in the show from December 4th he played
"Cycles
& Circles" (halfway through the
second hour), and also anounced our taking part
in the "Serious Request"-action "Demo
of the Day". These shows can be heard at
Ferry's website
(in Dutch only).
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September 11th 2008:
“All My days” in "The Ferman
Show"
Back from absence Ferry Molenaar today has
reacted very enthousiastically to "All
My Days", which he featured in "Mad-Minded-Music"
in his podcast at Boomr.nl: "The
Ferman Show". To be heard in episode
17 (also available via his new website)!
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August 13th 2008:
“All My days” and "Web of Life"
played on American Internet radio!
In last nights episode of the internet radio
show Soundscape
(no. 122, Aug. 12th) Woody Harris picked up
on the anouncement of the release of "All
My Days" and during the show received
an mp3 for playing. Consequently "All My
Days" was played, hot from the needle,
back to back with "Web
of Life".
The show will ofcourse be available for downloading
as mp3 (or streaming) from the Soundscape website.
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August 12th 2008:
Release of “All My Days”
Only two weeks late of the originally intended
release date Longshanks today presents the next
song for their upcoming album "The Return
of Longshanks": the funky symphonic ballad
"All
My Days".
Click the link above for the mp3, the lyrics
and some inside information.
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July 5th 2008:
“Borderline” and "I Have a
Dream - 2008"
on American Internet radio!
In episode 116 of the internet radio
show Soundscape
(June 25th) the song "Borderline"
was played because it fitted the central theme
of that episode. One week later in episode 117
Woody Harris played the 2008-version of "I
Have a Dream" and also used the jingle,
that André had made for his show!
Both shows can be downloaded as mp3 (or streamed).
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June 11th 2008:
“I Have a Dream” in new version
After finishing the recordings for "The
Web of Life" both Alex and Bregje have
asked André whether they could record
a new version of the instrumental song "I
Have a Dream" from 2004, with vocals
added to the mix. All of this to save this song
and to include it in the song-list for the new
CD.
April 19th the first concepts for the lyrics
and the melody were e-mailed to the singing
couple, and already the next day the first try-out
came back!
Yesterday evening André has e-mailed
them the last two versions of the mixdown. As
both Alex en Bregje chose the same version as
André, today we can present you with
the final version of: "I
Have a Dream - 2008".
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May 16th 2008:
“Into the Dawn” now digital
Almost lost in the hectic events around the
Soundscape broadcast and yet already present
in the news item below was another piece of
important news:
last monday we saw the long expeced digital
release of "Into
the Dawn". According to both Alex and
André that was one of the best songs
from the concept-demo "The Quest"
(and with 9 minutes the one but longest song
from that demo). Needless to say both were very
happy with this release, that was hastened by
the Soundscape broadcast.
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May 14th 2008:
“Web Of Life” on American internet
radio! prt.2
Episode 110 of the internet radio show
Soundscape
by DJ Woody Harris really did feature Longshanks:
not only did he play "The Web of Life",
but six other songs as well! You can download
the entire show as mp3 (or stream it). Longshanks
is right in after the first song (Styx - "Grand
Illusion") and is represented with:
- Prelude
- Courante
- Tango
- Cycles
& Circles
- Into
the Dawn
- The
Travelling Song, prt.2
- The
Web of Life
Longshanks sincerely wishes to thank Woody for
the airplay and support!
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May 1st 2008:
“Web Of Life” on American internet
radio!
On May 13th "The
Web of Life" will get airplay on the
internet radio show Soundscape
by DJ Woody Harris from Kennesaw, Georgia (USA).
He has found Longshanks via a news item on the
release of the CD-single in the Dutch Progressive
Rock Pages (DPRP)
and immediately contacted us to get hold of
an mp3 of the song.
To be continued...
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April 29th 2008:
LONGSHANKS relic-hat-trick news
In the 1988-October isue of symphonic rock
magazine “Sym-Info” there was
a review of Longshanks’ demo tape "Cycles
& Circles". Very proud (justly
so) of the very favourable review André
showed the magazine to Alex at the end of 1988.
Strangely it had gone missing without a trace
ever since…
Until Alex payed a visit to his parents (in
March of 2008) to rummage through his old photo
archive, and doing so came across: The Sym-Info
from 1988!
Shamefaced Alex returned the magazine to André
at the beginning of April 2008… (but not
without striking the deal that André
is to lend the magazine to him again in april
2028, for another 20 years… :-)
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April 8th 2008:
LONGSHANKS NEWS FLASH
By reporters: Alex, Rixk and Bregje.
CD-'single' presentation “Web Of Life”
Last Friday, 4th of April, Longshanks founder
André Kamer celebrated his 46st birthday,
in Amersfoort. Besides a well received party
for his own birthday, it also was a special
birthday party for Andrés band Longshanks.
After having released the first Longshanks
song "Cycles
& Circles" 20 years ago (Feb. 1988),
André anounced the official CD-release
of Longshanks latest song: "The
Web of Life", on April the 4th, in
the intimate company of his closest friends
and his beloved Inge. The official scoop of
the internet release had already been given
over a month ago to internet podcaster Ferry
Molenaar from “The Ferrman Show”,
who also interviewed André by phone at
that occasion.
In the presence of this company André
made the solemn pledge that they are to see
more releases by Longshanks in 2008 and
that the gathering for his 47th birthday is
to become the scene for the release of a full
Longshanks-CD with multiple new tracks !!!
Well, André, a promise is a promise
(and there were plenty of witnesses)!!
The Longshanks “Web of Life” CD-single
comes with a 4 page booklet, which shows some
fine artwork by André on the cover (for
insiders: it gives a sneak preview of the location
for the story of the next song to be released...),
and contains the lyrics and the history of W.O.L.
The CD-label shows a close-up of our own planet
Earth, refering to the theme of the song: “The
Web of Life”.
The CD can be ordered via info@longshanks.nl
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March 26th 2008:
Today we launched the new website for Longshanks.
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Februari 25th 2008:
On saturday Februari 23rd 2008 we did the mixdown
of our new track "The
Web of Life", today André was
interviewed on the phone by Ferry Molenaar of
"The
Ferman Show"-podcast: broadcasting
tomorrow! Show number 7 (only in Dutch, unfortunately...).
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Februari 8th 2008:
Show number 3 of "The
Ferman Show"-podcast is online at Boomr.nl,
featuring our song "Borderline"
as ultimate track in the show! Check it out
(if you understand Dutch...) and vote for this
guy!
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